The Biograph production log title of this film, "Devery, Low, Platt and the Tiger", suggests that it was about U.S. Senator Thomas Collier Platt of New York and the 1903 New York mayoral election campaigns of Seth Low and William S. Devery. "The Tiger" was the mascot of Tammany Hall, the Democratic Party political machine in New York, and the "red light" refers to campaign allegations about the existence of "red light" districts of prostitution.